poison

poison

Substance qui peut rendre gravement malade ou tuer une personne ou un animal en entrant dans son corps.

En anglais simple : A substance that can make people or animals very ill or kill them if it enters their bodies.

• Keep the poison away from children.
• The bottle contained a deadly poison.
• Doctors gave her medicine after she swallowed poison.

Synonymes : toxin

Expressions courantes : rat poison, deadly poison, swallow poison, take poison

poison

Chose qui nuit gravement à une personne, à une relation ou à une situation.

En anglais simple : Something that seriously harms a person, relationship, or situation.

• Hatred is poison to a community.
• Her cruel words spread poison through the family.
• Jealousy became a slow poison in their marriage.

Comment l'utiliser : poison to something (Constant suspicion is poison to friendship.)

Synonymes : bane

Expressions courantes : poison to something, spread poison, emotional poison

empoisonner

Rendre malade ou tuer une personne ou un animal avec une substance toxique.

En anglais simple : To make a person or animal ill, or kill them, through a harmful substance.

• The fumes could poison us.
• Several dogs were poisoned in the park.
• The child was accidentally poisoned by cleaning fluid.

Expressions courantes : poison someone, poison an animal, accidentally poison someone

empoisonner

Mettre une substance toxique dans de la nourriture, une boisson ou autre chose.

En anglais simple : To put a harmful substance into food, drink, or something else.

• Someone tried to poison his food.
• She feared that her drink had been poisoned.
• Did they poison the soup?

Expressions courantes : poison someone’s food, poison a drink

polluer, empoisonner

Rendre l’air, l’eau ou la terre dangereux en y introduisant des substances nocives.

En anglais simple : To make air, water, or land harmful by adding dangerous substances.

• Factory waste poisoned the river.
• These chemicals can poison the soil.
• Smoke from the fire was poisoning the air.

Synonymes : pollute, contaminate

Contraires : purify

Expressions courantes : poison the water, poison the soil, poison the air

empoisonner, détériorer

Rendre une relation, un sentiment ou une situation beaucoup plus mauvais.

En anglais simple : To make a relationship, feeling, or situation much worse.

• Suspicion can poison a friendship.
• His insults poisoned the atmosphere at work.
• Years of resentment had poisoned their marriage.

Synonymes : damage, ruin, sour

Contraires : improve

Expressions courantes : poison a relationship, poison the atmosphere, poison a debate

empoisonner, corrompre

Remplir l’esprit de quelqu’un d’idées nuisibles ou de sentiments négatifs envers les autres.

En anglais simple : To fill someone’s mind with harmful ideas or negative feelings about others.

• Those lies poisoned her mind.
• He tried to poison the children against their mother.
• Years of propaganda had poisoned their thinking.

Comment l'utiliser : poison someone against someone (She tried to poison him against his friends.)

Synonymes : corrupt

Expressions courantes : poison someone’s mind, poison someone against someone